Dr Andrea Kwa graduated with a degree in Pharmacy from the National University of Singapore in 1996 and received her Doctor of Pharmacy Degree from the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in New York in 2006. She then completed a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh’s Division of Infectious Diseases, where she researched anti-fungal resistance and molecular diagnostics. Dr Kwa is currently a Pharmacy Clinician Scientist and Assistant Director, Pharmacy (Research), at the Singapore General Hospital. She is also a faculty member of the Emerging Infectious Diseases program at Duke-NUS Medical School.
Dr Kwa specializes in critical care medicine, infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance research. She helms a laboratory studying antimicrobial pharmacodynamics/pharmacokinetics and resistance. She also performs health services research involving antimicrobial stewardships, risk factors and outcomes of resistant infections. Dr Kwa has authored more than 60 publications and is a reviewer for many scientific journals.
